Category: Culture

Sufjan Stevens supposedly recorded “Carrie & Lowell” in the living room of his Brooklyn apartment. Such is the closeness of the album that you, the listener, could be sitting on an adjacent couch, humming along with the apartment’s air conditioning unit. In past albums, Stevens presented his emotionally damaged myths with bombastic kitsch orchestras, either...

If there’s one thing I’ll take away from the Great Books sequence here at Hillsdale, it’s that in great literature every sentence, every phrase, and every word has a purpose. The same principle can be applied to any form of art, whether painting, music, theater, or film. A great artist is a purposeful artist. Nothing...

On Friday nights at the Old Snack Bar, the sound of music can be heard as the Hillsdale Hepcats Swing Dancing Club meets for a swing dancing lesson, followed by open dance. Lots of behind-the-scenes effort goes into planning each event, from selecting music to putting together a lesson for those interested in expanding their...

In an effort to encourage arts in the community, Artworks, the Art Council of Hillsdale County, invited music students from sixth through twelfth grade to compete in its 9th Annual Music Performance Competition on Sunday. To spread the word, Artworks councilwoman Renee Nestorak ’10 sent letters to every teacher and private music instructor in the...

When you consider the great art museums and galleries of the world, you may think of the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, or possibly the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. I’m willing to guess that you don’t think about the art museum only...